Spam in my Gmail inbox that's not addressed to me?

Recently I’ve started getting spam that doesn’t have my address in the “to” field. It’s addressed to “RUSSELL@aol.com.” “Russell” is the first string of characters in my Gmail address (followed by other letters), but I’ve never had an AOL account. Here’s a screenshot of my Gmail “to” popup:2021-07-11-0653-31

Any idea how these are ending up in my Gmail inbox?

Thanks,
Russell

Your real email address might be bcc:'d.

I’d guess it’s spam with many addresses in the bcc field. Might be worth a look at the email headers though.

I don’t see a bcc field, but in the Gmail interface, I selected “Show original” and saw a large chunk of text that included my email address:

Received: from littledex.com (littledex.com. [185.185.40.89])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id rv24si13832377ejb.690.2021.07.11.04.41.34
for myemailaddress@gmail.com;

(Substituting “myemailaddress” for the real one.)

I’ve made a Gmail filter that trashes anything addressed to russell@aol.com. Maybe that will work.

Thanks,
Russell

Yeah, you won’t see the BCC field.

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